Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Meher Baba"
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
